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Oldest veteran Lesley Stelfox dies at Sheppey care home
Published: 06:00, 23 January 2021
Lesley Stelfox, believed to be one of Britain s oldest war veterans, has died at his Sheppey care home. He was 107.
Mr Stelfox passed away on December 30 at Blackburn Lodge in Sheerness Broadway. Before moving there, he had been living on his own in Sittingbourne.
Thumbs up from WW2 veteran Leslie Stelfox, 107, despite having to self isolate at Blackburn Lodge, Sheerness
He was born in Dover Street, Sittingbourne, on May 9, 1913, a year before the start of the First World War.
His earliest memory, he said, was being pushed in his pram and seeing a Zeppelin fly overhead on its way to bomb London.